They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.
We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.
The future will be owned and operated by the entrepreneurial ly minded.
Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.
I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
U. S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.
In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it's still a story about your relatives visiting.
Ron Paul's revolution isn't a fluke. It's the future.
The past is just data. I only see the future.
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.
Your future is co-created out of what you do today. Do you act from fear or faith? You get to choose.
Keep believing. You may be tired, discouraged, but don't give up on your future.
The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.